Chapter 75 If you have a clear conscience, why fear ghosts knocking at your door?
"Xiao Qin? Xiao Qin?"
Xiao Yuqing suddenly came to her senses and realized that the police kept calling her current name.
"No...no...it's nothing." She forced a smile. "It's just that my neighbor was being nosy. Nothing's wrong with my house at all!!!"
The police officer and the couple across the hall exchanged a glance.
The couple was speechless at Xiao Yuqing's counterattack and rolled their eyes in unison.
"Your house is alright?" The police pointed to the wrecked ruins in the living room. "You call this alright?"
Xiao Yuqing stammered as she explained, "I...I was sleepwalking and accidentally smashed it!"
“Yes,” Xiao Yuqing finally found an excuse, her eyes lighting up, “I’ve been under so much pressure lately, I sleepwalked and smashed it!!!”
Police: "...Do you have something on them that they can use against you?"
Xiao Yuqing exploded like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, "How dare you talk to me like that? I said it's nothing, and that's final!!!"
The police did not expect Xiao Yuqing to react so strongly.
"Officer," a neighbor couldn't stand it anymore, "it's not a matter of her saying it's nothing. If someone of unknown origin vandalizes other people's homes, it's a huge threat to us!"
Xiao Yuqing's face turned green.
...
The farce lasted a long time, and finally ended briefly due to the lack of surveillance evidence and eyewitnesses.
Xiao Yuqing glared fiercely at her neighbor before finally leaving the police station.
After returning home and rummaging through the broken furniture, Xiao Yuqing realized that her phone was missing.
She panicked immediately.
Unfortunately, she had too many cases on her hands and dared not alert the police.
After buying a new phone and getting a new SIM card, Xiao Yuqing was too scared to stay home alone, so she went to a bubble tea shop.
"Hello?" Xiao Yuqing felt a little safer after pulling down the roller shutter. "Hello?"
The call had barely connected when, before Xiao Yuqing could say anything, the phone went dead.
Xiao Yuqing looked at the notification that her phone had been disconnected with disbelief, but still couldn't give up and dialed back.
What's the meaning?
Are these people not going to care about her anymore?
Xiao Yuqing gripped her phone tightly; the woman's grotesque and distorted features were reflected on the black screen.
Despicable people... they're all despicable people...
She grabbed her phone and keys and hailed a taxi home.
Pushing open the door, Xiao Yuqing stepped over the ruins on the ground and went straight to her bedside table.
After searching for a long time, she finally found her wallet and breathed a sigh of relief.
The bank card and identification documents were intact.
She checked the remaining hush money in her bank account at the ATM at the entrance of the residential complex, bought a plane ticket, and took a taxi to the airport.
It's probably because it's a weekday and not the end of the workday yet, so a taxi stopped right away when I raised my hand.
Xiao Yuqing didn't think much of it and was eager to leave this place as soon as possible.
"Go to Chengnan Airport." Xiao Yuqing relaxed and leaned back in the back seat of the car, instructing the driver in the front.
The driver in the front seat, wearing a mask, gently confirmed the destination with her before slowly driving away from the roadside.
Xiao Yuqing saw the driver casually switch the status of the indicator to "carrying passengers" and the car was driving very smoothly, so she gradually relaxed.
After two days without proper rest, the fatigue finally began to creep in. She slowly leaned back in her seat and gradually closed her eyes.
Take a nap.
I woke up to find myself at my destination.
...
"What did Xiao Yuqing mean by that mass text message?" The man went straight to the innermost luxury private room as soon as he entered the karaoke bar, pushed open the door and questioned his companion directly.
"I need to ask you about this," the group of people who were clinking glasses in the private room said, their expressions not lightening as their last companion entered. "You've always been in charge of Xiao Yuqing's affairs, haven't you, Li Ran?"
Li Ran's face darkened, and he slammed his phone on the table. "Back in college, she was always very obedient and handled things perfectly... Why would she suddenly send out threatening messages to everyone now?"
The phone screen lit up with a text message from Xiao Yuqing.
[My luck hasn't been great lately, so I need to borrow some more money from a few bosses to tide me over. Hey everyone, let's meet at the usual place. Just to be safe, cash only.]
Otherwise... I wouldn't mind sharing what I have with netizens so they can enjoy it too.
"Also, regarding Young Master Ji's accident," Li Ran looked at the man sitting in the middle of the group on the sofa, "what are your thoughts?"
The man frowned. "What could he possibly be thinking? He was drunk and speeding... and the timing of his accident... isn't that too much of a coincidence..."
“Brother Zhao,” Li Ran said, adopting a humble tone, “Xiao Yuqing called me before and said she was being watched, and the other party even knew the details of what she did for us…”
"When Young Master Ji asked us to get the female students for him, he swore that with his protection, nothing would happen... but now..."
Ji Chen himself died.
Although the sentence was not spoken aloud, everyone present understood it perfectly.
"Brother Zhao, could it be revenge?" a well-dressed young man asked suspiciously. "We've dealt with those unreasonable family members before, it's hard to say we might run into one or two lunatics..."
"Which female student's family member do you think it could be?" Brother Zhao asked with a gloomy expression, the cigarette in his hand flickering, obscuring most of his expression.
“We only started working under Young Master Ji in college, so we haven’t handled many cases,” Li Ran said, recalling one by one through elimination. “That well-behaved girl in freshman year… it shouldn’t be her. That girl was drugged and then devoted herself to Young Master Ji, didn’t she?”
"Most of the young masters who were giving money and gifts have stopped... those few pretentious ones..."
"One of them was a sophomore who got in Song Shao's way. It took us a lot of effort to win her over. The rest were all troublemakers who were tricked out of school by Xiao Yuqing."
"The families of these four women are not easy to deal with; they caused a scene and called the police..."
"Could it be one of them?"
Brother Zhao fell silent, and was about to speak when he was interrupted by the sound of the door to the private room being pushed open.
He was a male waiter I had never seen before.
"Hello," the male waiter said, standing at the door, "Here's your fruit platter."
The group exchanged glances.
"We didn't order anything," Brother Zhao said, his gaze sweeping over the waiter. "You've come to the wrong place, haven't you?"
"No?" The man glanced at the order information. "It's this private room of yours. The order was placed by... Mr. Ji Chen."
The expressions on their faces changed drastically.
Did the dead Ji Chen order fruit platters for them?
Who the hell would believe that if I told them?
The waiter placed the fruit platter on the table in front of them without asking, saying, "Please enjoy."
He then left quickly.
Brightly colored watermelons and melons were arranged in the shape of a boat, surrounded by other fruits of various colors.
A mismatched black and white greeting card was inserted in the very center.
The group exchanged glances, and Li Ran leaned over to take out the greeting card.
The folded greeting card was unfolded to reveal a black and white photograph inside, soaked with fruit juice.
The photo clearly shows Xiao Yuqing, who is tightly bound and looks terrified.
Li Ran's hand trembled, and the greeting card fluttered lightly into the fruit bowl, soiling the neatly arranged fruit.
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